Disturbing video has surfaced of a toddler cursing and hitting police while adults in the background hurled racist slurs in St. Paul, Minnesota, where crime has surged since George Floyd was killed in 2020.
Police officers were at a home to serve a search warrant in the hunt for a murder suspect when they were assaulted by the young children.
The 30-second clip shows they young boy standing in the street in his underwear, barefoot, screaming: ‘Shut up b***h!’ at a police officer and telling him to ‘shut the f**k up!’
He then turned to the other officer and made fun of his ‘ugly a** shoes’, while other children, some in diapers watched.
An adult male can be heard in the background encouraging the children and calling the black police officer ‘Oreo head’.
The children continued to hit the officers with their fists but the the officers kept their cool and could be seen trying to calm the children.
Journalist Sheila Qualls shared the story, where she wrote that the ‘behavior of these children is eerily similar to the behaviors of rioters who burned and looted Minneapolis two years ago.’
‘They cussed, berated, and struck police officers with their fists. This video is disgraceful. Heartbreaking. It is unsettling to law enforcement officers who encounter this behavior daily. It should be frightening to all of us.
‘It should be embarrassing to leaders who have failed to lead a community toward virtue and morality,’ Qualls wrote.
‘We can do better, and we must. Let’s stop playing politics with our children’s lives. I do not believe this is what civil rights leaders wanted for the future of the black community.
‘These children and our country deserve better.’
